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The Geometry of Memory: How Knots Carry the Weight of Human History

Anthropology.net

Despite differences in time, geography, and material culture, many human groups developed the same set of knots—again and again. link] — Explores cultural phylogenetics through folk narratives, analogous to the methods applied to knot histories. The phylogeny of Little Red Riding Hood. PLOS ONE , 8(11), e78871. Henrich, J.

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The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

Anthropology News

Adults in the audience responded with knowing and affirming sounds, signaling their recognition of the persistent apartheid geography that maintains racialized access to spaces and opportunities in their city. Driven by this critique, he returned to Launch as a history teacher with aims to help “decolonize classrooms.”

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What happens when two separate and unequal school districts merge?

The Hechinger Report

At the start of the 2015 school year, about 800 new students — the majority African-American—from schools in Oktibbeha County prepared for their first year in the newly consolidated Starkville Oktibbeha County Public School District. John Jones asks a question to his students in AP Human Geography on August 18, 2016.

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Open letter to teachers who feel trapped in racist schools

The Hechinger Report

Communities, ones organized by race, socioeconomic class and geography, use schools to cover blatant housing discrimination, school financing bias and white supremacy. But racism is imparted not just by not just by what a state demands its students to learn; it’s also about what they don’t require — learning the true history of our country.

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College Uncovered: The Rural Higher Education Blues

The Hechinger Report

It also cut English chemistry, math, history, finance, accounting, art and other majors — 21 of them in all, or a third of everything it used to teach. Just after she finished the university cut the English program along with math, chemistry, biology, history. West Virginia’s enrollment is down by 10 percent since 2015.

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New events from the RGS-IBG

Living Geography

Cross posting from my 'At the Home of Geography' blog. This is important because their impacts are likely to be a partly a function of the deprivation history of an area (e.g., Details of two new update events have been added to the RGS website. Details here of the first one.

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A school district is building a DIY broadband network

The Hechinger Report

Nobody can own spectrum, but they can get a license to use specific frequencies, which the FCC grants by geography. Explaining why requires some history. Marie Vinel uses the internet to teach the history of “Cinco de Mayo” to her Spanish class at Walton Middle School. That’s why, for example, 92.9 This is an equity issue.

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